Who leads the Church and the Vatican when its head cannot perform his duties or dies? Such a person has already been chosen.

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Dublin, and now Kevin Farrell is set to preside over the election of the new ...

Who leads the Church and the Vatican when its head cannot perform his duties or dies? Such a person has already been chosen.

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

The Vatican said the cause of death was a stroke that put him into a coma and led to heart failure. Francis had chronic lung ...

The pontiff, known for his welcoming pastoral style and care for the marginalized, passed away Monday morning.

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and ...